Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)

Volume 19 No. 1, Spring 2000

List of Requests for Material or Information Required for Studies of the
Canadian Fauna 2000

This list is intended to facilitate cooperation among entomologists by encouraging
those who visit suitable areas while engaged in other studies to collect material of
particular interest to workers elsewhere. Similar lists that were circulated in previous
years prompted the transmission of several useful sets of material, and the efforts of the
various cooperators were much appreciated.

Reared
material in the following genera: Acridomyia (grasshopper parasitoids), Hylemya, Lasiomma
and Anthomyia (larvae dung feeders, etc.), Strobilomyia (larvae in cones of conifers),
Egle (larvae in willow catkins) and Chirosia (larvae feeding on ferns). Material should be
properly mounted and labelled. It will be returned to sender in due course.

Adults from any habitat, but often associated with graminoids.
Preservation in 70% ethanol preferred. Maliase and especially pan trap residues are
acceptable and valuable. General description of herbaceous cover and soil moisture
advantageous.

Larvae, pupae and adults, especially collections that might lead to
species identification of larva through association with adult. Preserve adults dry or in
80% ethanol, larvae and pupae in Kahles fluid or 80% ethanol.